[OSM-dev] Is there any API to get data from OSM as geoJson?

Paweł Paprota ppawel at fastmail.fm
Sun Feb 10 08:47:10 GMT 2013


Hi Stefan,

> So you mean given a tile location like this
>    http://c.tile.openstreetmap.org/16/34372/22990.png
> return a vector tile set of GeoJSON features?
>

Yes, that is the plan.

> What makes me wondering is this: When entering
>    http://owl.osm.org/api/0.1/changesets/16/34372/22990.geojson
> ... do I already get a "changeset" from this tile including all geometries?
>

Yes, that is true. You can see early API documentation on the wiki:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OWL/API

Also this API is used to power new history tab you can see here:

http://owl.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/

Paweł




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